Zero K by Don DeLilloMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Review can also be read on my Goodreads profile here.
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This book...is weird. I did not find it creepy, but I did find it disturbing (and not in a good way). I found it very strange and incomprehensible. I did not understand what was happening half the time. All the characters keep spouting random thoughts in rote monotone and always off on tangents that it kept me wondering whether they were high, heavily medicated, or just...crazy.
Do not expect all the science stuff you'd usually anticipate when you hear the word "cryonic suspension." There is very minimal science explained in this book. I'm not even sure that this can be classified as science-fiction. It's more philosophical and...morbid. I found myself wanting to quit the entire time I was reading it; I found myself breathing a sigh of relief when I finished it. And by my standards, that's not a very good thing to feel when reading a book.
Maybe I'm just not smart enough for this book. Or maybe I read it at the wrong time with the wrong mindset. This isn't what I'd identify as an easy read nor a fast read. This isn't even a thrilling read. It's mostly questions and deep realizations of Jeffrey Lockhart, about mortality, and about the idea of re-living again. Much can be said about Jeffrey's cynicism and his absolute doubt of his father's cult-like science called the Convergence, but that was not cultivated well to turn this book into something remotely interesting. I pained through 200 pages of him complaining and contemplating, and then complaining again, and then contemplating again. Add a few pages of Artis Martineau's convoluted inner monologue frustrated me even more. For some inconceivable reason, All I could think about while reading it was the word 'pretentious.'
I'm finding a hard time explaining my rating on the book (2 stars) because to be humbly and completely honest, I did not understand the point of it. At all.
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"These are soporifics of normalcy, my days in middling drift." -- Yes, you got that right. This is how I felt reading through this book.
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